{"id":1717,"date":"2009-02-19T08:15:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T13:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2009-02-20T06:15:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T11:15:10","slug":"shameless-i-am-completely-incorrigible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/shameless-i-am-completely-incorrigible\/","title":{"rendered":"Shameless, I am.  Completely incorrigible."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just can&#8217;t help myself!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/3290582567\/\" title=\"30:365  Vote for our Mom! by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3368\/3290582567_1d9cd6b850.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"30:365  Vote for our Mom!\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Hey, if you won&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mabel.ca\/poll\">vote <\/a>for me, do it for them.  Don&#8217;t make my brazen exploitation of my kids be in vain!  (Truth be told, they were great sports.  Tristan&#8217;s developing a fine sense of humour, and as soon as I told him it was a grownup joke, he was in without question.  I told Simon his sign said people should give him Smarties, and he was in, too.)<\/p>\n<p>And hey, lookit that, because this is my lastest picture for <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/category\/project-365\/\">Project 365<\/a>, I can just segue into my weekly review of that project, too.  See, multipurpose exploitation!!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/3272519787\/\" title=\"23:365 Melty by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3350\/3272519787_118abfac86_s.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" alt=\"23:365 Melty\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/3275709900\/\" title=\"24:365 Vote for me!!  Vote for me!! by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3501\/3275709900_20e81bc8b4_s.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" alt=\"24:365 Vote for me!!  Vote for me!!\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/3283803865\/\" title=\"26:365 Snack time! by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3385\/3283803865_a64a340b00_s.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" alt=\"26:365 Snack time!\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/3289652689\/\" title=\"27:365 Winter day at the park by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3661\/3289652689_8184272c52_s.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" alt=\"27:365 Winter day at the park\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/3291242856\/\" title=\"28:365 Pest by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3449\/3291242856_5a87131a0b_s.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" alt=\"28:365 Pest\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>When I could draw myself away from using my children for my own nefarious purposes (and really, why else would one have children in the first place?) I had a bit of an addiction to photos of the Parliament Buildings this week.  They&#8217;re lovely in any light!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/3291375006\/\" title=\"29:365 Parliament in pink  by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3035\/3291375006_1788b45f99_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"29:365 Parliament in pink \" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/3279276676\/\" title=\"25:365 Mooning the Peace Tower by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3388\/3279276676_b9da378a0f_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"25:365 Mooning the Peace Tower\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And (speaking of segues) I&#8217;ll likely have at least one more photo to add to the Parliament Building set today.  Sounds like President Obama will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/ottawa\/story\/2009\/02\/18\/ot-090218-obamaguide.html\">arriving on Parliament Hill <\/a>just about the time I can take my lunch break.  Got my camera and my scarf and mitts (it&#8217;s snowing, of course) and I think I&#8217;ll go check it out.  This morning I was walking up Sussex just in time to see a motorcade pulling out of the US Embassy and heading toward the airport &#8211; no doubt the Ambassador heading out to greet his boss.<\/p>\n<p><em>[<strong>Edited to add<\/strong>:  I was there!  Tried to get to Parliament Hill to get pix of people rolling snowballs to stand on to get a better view &#8211; does it get any more Canadian than that? &#8211; but by the time I left at 11 am pedestrian access was blocked.  Instead, stood on the E&#038;C patio at the corner of Colonel By and Rideau and shared an elevated planter with a little boy of 10 or so years old to get a better view over the crowd.  Felt the lovely surge of excitement as the crowd cheered and waved when the motorcade past &#8212; but was too busy taking pictures to actually figure out which Cadillac One might actually have Barack Obama in it!  Will post pix tonight!]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All that, and it&#8217;s my parents&#8217; wedding 43rd anniversary today too, something that needs no segue.  Happy Anniversary, Granny and Papa Lou!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just can&#8217;t help myself! Hey, if you won&#8217;t vote for me, do it for them. Don&#8217;t make my brazen exploitation of my kids be in vain! (Truth be told, they were great sports. Tristan&#8217;s developing a fine sense of humour, and as soon as I told him it was a grownup joke, he was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/shameless-i-am-completely-incorrigible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shameless, I am.  Completely incorrigible.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15,18,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-i-love-the-interwebs","category-it-is-all-about-me","category-life-in-ottawa","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}